Q&A Archive

Question: Are you suggesting that banking interest is okay. Answer: That’s not a correct understanding of what I said. In fact the matter is complex and a sweeping statement would oversimplify the issue. What I said was that more-than-principal payment is not always Riba, not even when it’s fixed, so long as the lender is […]

Question. Do ex wives (divorced) have any right to the ex husbands assets at the time of divorce and/or his death post divorce. If yes does it change if she gets married again. Answer. Salam. In case of divorce the ex wife ceases to be a wife for all legal, practical purposes. In case of […]

Question: Why do you use the expression God instead of Allah? Answer: The Qur’an says “Tell them: Call Him by the name Allah or Al-Rahman (it makes no difference); by whatever name you call Him by (it hardly matters), because to Him belong all the good names.”(17:110) We also learn from the Qur’an that the […]

Question: Aslam o alaikum khalid zaheer sb. I had a question with regard to giving zakat to maids on their wedding like purchasing washing machine or tv for maids from zakat money when they get married? Because the poor people today are also pressurized by in-laws for such things. Second, a distant relative of mine […]

Question. Do ex wives (divorced) have any right to the ex husbands assets at the time of divorce and/or his death post divorce. If yes does it change if she gets married again. Answer. In case of divorce the ex wife ceases to be a wife for all legal, practical purposes. In case of […]

Question Can fasts be shortened in view of the fact that in many countries in the West the duration of it is so long that it becomes unbearable for Muslims who have to attend to their full duties to do fast and work? Response Fasting is a religious obligation desired by God. He has also […]

Question: What is significance of 99 names of Allah? I mean by saying them repeatedly does Allah fulfilled our prayers or increase our good deeds. What are meanings of words in start of surahs called louhay Qur’an? Why Allah choose these words to start surahs. Some people hang them to walls in written form why? […]

Question: I don’t observe purdah. But I am quite modest in wearing clothes and especially in interaction with males very careful means I never stare them. I am practicing Islam to my level best but some times I feel very depressed what if all my prayers, sadaqh, be good to others means good deeds will […]

Question: My question is world population in 7.02 billion and out of which 2.04 billion are Muslims. From 2.04 Muslims there are so many sects only one sect will go to paradise. How will Allah who loves his creation so much according to one hadees His love is 70 times more for man if compared […]

Question: I have a question on how the message from Quran for present day muslims will be extracted. As per the style of Quran, mentioned by Ghamidi saahab, the quran addresses the persons of those days, Mushrikeen and Ahle Kitaab of those days and Momin of those days. If there is a direct command for […]